The Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy is pleased to announce our 2nd Annual Scholarship Competition for Faculty, which will commence on January 1, 2014.

The Beck Institute will award five faculty recipients (graduate faculty in psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, and counseling may apply) with full tuition scholarships to our Annual Faculty Workshop: Teaching and Supervising CBT, in Philadelphia, PA, on June 9 – 11, 2014.

In this workshop led by Beck Institute adjunct faculty member, Donna Sudak, MD, and Beck Institute Director of Education, Daniella Cortez Cavenagh, PhD, graduate faculty will learn how to employ evidence-based strategies to improve CBT teaching and supervision, how to identify key learning needs and micro skills for CBT training, and how to effectively provide feedback to students and trainees. The workshop will also address faculty development, program development (including coordination of training elements within a program), and processes of student/trainee evaluation.

The workshop will feature a 90-minute conversation with Dr. Aaron Beck, after which scholarship winners are invited to discuss their work in a private session with Drs. Judith and Aaron Beck.

To enter the competition, please submit answers to the following questions using no more than 200-500 words (in total), within the body of an email, and send it tobeckfacultyscholarship@gmail.com. Applications will be accepted January 1, 2014 through January 31, 2014. *Attachments will not be accepted.

What has been your training in CBT?

What population do you teach or will you teach CBT to?

How do you hope to use the knowledge you will obtain from the workshop?

Deadline: January 31, 2014

*Scholarship applicants may register for the Faculty Workshop in advance, and will be refunded should they win the competition. Applicants from previous years are eligible to apply.

CBTSSC social at ABCT 2013

Dear CBTSSC members:

Are you attending this year’s ABCT conference in Nashville?

If so, join us for happy hour on Saturday November 23rd from 4-5:30 at the Cascades American Bar and Restaurant located in the Gaylord Opryland Hotel for an opportunity to connect with CBTSSC members and friends!

Additionally, this event will be an opportunity to current and former externs/postdocs/employees of Harbor UCLA psychology!

We are excited to announce our latest networking event in Los Angeles! Please join us for a relaxed opportunity to meet with other Southern California professionals, early career professionals, and students from all applied, research, and academic settings who are interested in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies and Evidence Based Practice.

If you haven’t already, please join our mailing list by clicking here! We use this low-volume email list to announce CBT news, trainings, and other events in the Southern California area. You can opt out of emails at any time.

We also have a Facebook group for more announcements and opportunities to connect with other CBT professionals!

In addition to our local CBT practitioners we will be meeting up with the local organizations from SF and NYC. We hope to share ideas about how to make our local professional associations as effective and fun as possible. We also, of course, hope to relax and enjoy each other!

Harrington’s Irish Pub at 177 Fleet Street, National Harbor is a lively, casual gathering place that offers the perfect venue for this event. It is walking distance from the ABCT Convention Hotel (Gaylord Hotel).

We have a table for 20 reserved in the bar area from 8-10pm. This is a casual Irish pub where there is room to mingle around the table for as many folks as come.